Requiring Linux 3.2, again

[Joseph Myers]

On Thu, 4 May 2017, Joseph Myers wrote:

> I think that would be a reasonable approach (so --enable-kernel affects 
> the notes in binaries indicating the required kernel version, and disables 
> runtime fallback code, but doesn't stop programs running).  There might be 

 ... which would incidentally mean, as regards what programs work, that 
all --enable-kernel versions 3.1 and above are exactly the same on x86_64, 
and all from 3.0 to 4.2 are the same on i386, since no features with 
--enable-kernel conditionals on those architectures were added in those 
ranges (there's code using newer syscalls such as getrandom, but not with 
any --enable-kernel fallbacks).

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Joseph S. Myers
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